2023-10-05 16:24:38
You may only know some of them, but they are all equally valid.
The creation, more or less original or ingenious, of phrases or sayings to refer to the same reality is very common in Spanish, and the factors involved in the invention of constructions are different, such as age, place, register, the references…
This is demonstrated by the results of the survey we launched a week ago in our Instagram accountin which we ask about expressions and phrases that are used when we want to say that there is no one in a place or that no one has arrived, such as, for example, Not even Perry has come. One, two, three…, answer again!
The proposed option is the short version of by Perry Mason, name of the lawyer who starred in Erle Stanley Gardner’s detective novels and who also appeared in numerous feature films and television series. He was so present in the lives of viewers and it was so difficult not to see him, that he got the phrase coined in his honor.
Other forms that we receive, and that contain proper names, are not even Tato (nickname of a well-known bullfighter from the 19th century who participated in many celebrations), of Peter, of Blas o ni Clifford (of whose origins we have not found information).
Among the responses that followers sent us are animals: no dogs, not a cat (and its variant four cats to express that there are very few people) and even not even the parrot (which is documented in Argentina and Uruguay). There are also other more mystical ones like not a soul (pick up at Current Spanish Dictionary), in the pora (noun that, according to Dictionary of Americanisms, It is used in Paraguay and in northeastern Argentina, with the sense of ‘ghost or apparition’, and it seems to be related to a mythological being) and others such as is deserted (the place) o emptier than a mass when there is football.
Once again we remember that these surveys do not have a scientific purpose and we hope that in the next one everyone answers (a colloquial phrase that means ‘everyone’).
#Survey #ways